Senior Producer @vice/@vicenews • @cut and @bernie2020WA • @theatlantic, @thenation • Podcasting for @activistclass ⚾️ Hawai’i born and raised
Jun 15, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Let me breakdown #CHAZ/#CHOP and the drama between Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan & Police Chief Carmen Best in what I like to call—
"Jenny Durkan has a reelection to win next year and Carmen Best DGAF." komonews.com/news/local/may…
Jenny Durkan allowed SPD to "protect" the East Precinct against protestors using tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash bombs. For over a week SPD & Durkan were on the same page—destroy the protesting by any means necessary. forbes.com/sites/jemimamc…
Jun 6, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Seattle PD dragging mother out of her car while her 9 year old is in the backseat. Officer tells her she has “multiple counts of assaulting an officer. You assaulted me and you assaulted another officer” at a protest couple days ago.
Cops are seeking revenge on protestors.
Woman is at KC JAIL and an attorney spoke to her this morning. This is the day Seattle Mayor “banned tear gas” Enough dancing on Capitol Hill and falling for police propaganda. Law enforcement and @MayorJenny has gone to war with their people. #seattleprotests
Jun 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Alert! Cops tracked down a protestor from days ago and came with a fleet and arrested her and towed her car. 30 cops for 1 woman. #seattleprotests
This is what I’m hearing from neighbors. Screen recordings should be out soon.
Apr 2, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Seattle was ground zero for #Covid19 in the US. But even with thousands of new cases, the city continued to search and destroy homeless encampments, even after it was clear this put people in danger of infection.
My latest with @GuyOron for @thenation thenation.com/article/societ…
The @ACLU_WA has filed against the City of Seattle around the Homeless Sweeps. The suit—which was filed in Oct—argues that the city has criminalized poverty and is punishing people for trying to live on City-owned land, despite a severe lack of shelter availability in Seattle.
Oct 15, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Amazon confirmed they're spending another $1.05M on the Seattle City Council elections. That brings the total to $1.45 million.
This is how billionaires like Bezos protects their wealth. By buying hyper-local elected seats to prevent any future taxes. geekwire.com/2019/amazon-gi…
“We are disappointed by today’s City Council decision to introduce a tax on jobs … we remain very apprehensive about the future created by the council’s hostile approach and rhetoric toward larger businesses, which forces us to question our growth here,” Amazon VP Drew Herdener,
Jul 5, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I hate how Journalism counties to fetishize "objectivity". Publications have historically gaslighted communities of color by forcing them to prove that the things going on in their communities are "news worthy". Media has served as gatekeepers between the people and justice.
In an industry that centered old white male voices, what did objectivity look like for them? Stories from the projects either didn't earn a spot in the local paper, or it was exploited by the trauma porn click bait journalist.
